Chris Preimesberger

VOIP provider ShoreTel the week of June 16 began shipping Version 8.0 of its ShoreWare Professional Call Manager unified communications system, which already offered voice, instant messaging and e-mail, but now includes an option for video with business processes. ShoreTel claims to be the first vendor to deliver a system that takes advantage of a […]

NEC introduced June 16 a new storage area network disaster recovery package it calls “system continuity” software designed specifically for virtualized systems.ExpressCluster can run on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems and in virtualized, physical or mixed virtual/physical x86 server platforms, George Wu, NEC director of software business, told eWEEK.For SAN, LAN and WAN environments, […]

Hewlett-Packard introduced a new industrial-strength blade server, Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem, on June 16 at its annual Technology Forum & Expo in Las Vegas, and aimed it directly at existing IBM mainframe users for consideration as an alternative system. The new blade server, a cousin of the company’s highly successful BladeSystem C-class series-which it debuted […]

IBM the week of June 9 unveiled the next wave of Project Big Green, its $1 billion initiative to increase data center energy efficiency for itself and its clients. IBM kicked off the initiative in May 2007. In August, it announced that it would consolidate about 3,900 of its own servers onto 33 virtualized System […]

This item will take less than 1 minute to read, but it’s about significant news in the IT world: Merger talks between Microsoft and Yahoo are officially dead and buried. To recall the late, great Chris Farley: “Well, la-di-frickin’-da!” Gee whiz, what a surprise! To the key players in this long drawn-out and undoubtedly expensive […]

David Friend, founder and CEO of Carbonite, is always good for a thoughtful — and colorful — analysis of almost anything in the online data storage sector. If you have custom radio (XM, Sirius and the like), you’ve probably heard of Carbonite. The company advertises on new media more than any other data storage company […]

Here’s one more good example of why everybody and every business should have his, her or its data backed up somewhere safe online. The Associated Press reported June 10 that billing records of about 2.2 million people at the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics were stolen from a courier’s vehicle. “The records, described only […]

Toshiba announced June 11 that it plans to bring to market two 1.8-inch serial ATA hard drives that will ship with a maximum capacity of 160GB-the highest such capacity yet in that disk size.The 160GB drive and a smaller 80GB drive will enter mass production in August, a company spokesperson said.Both 1.8-inch drives sport an […]

Symantec June 10 announced that it has joined the ranks of IT companies investing in online backup services. The company acquired SwapDrive, a privately held online storage company, for terms that were not officially announced. However, an industry and financial analyst who asked not to be identified told eWEEK that the price was approximately $123 […]

LAS VEGAS — Tuesday was Information Technology and Sports Licensing Day at the Venetian resort here in this hot desert city, once home to Howard Hughes, Elvis Presley, Bugsy Siegel, the Rat Pack and a few thousand anonymous casino workers. It’s now home to more than a million folks, and lots more are on the […]